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 Alexander Briger
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Alexander Briger was born in Australia. He studied in Sydney and later in Munich and has won various awards, including first prize in the International Workshop/Competition for Conductors in the Czech Republic. He has worked closely with Sir Charles Mackerras on many of his projects and with Pierre Boulez in Aix-en-Provence with the Ensemble InterContemporain. He has premiered many works by composers such as Arvo Part, Mark Anthony Turnage, Simon Holt and Bruno Mantovani and combines a very varied concert career with a wide range of operatic projects.
He made his BBC Proms and Berlin Festival debuts in 2002 with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; his many notable concert projects with them have now included appearances in Birmingham, Copenhagen, Dublin and London’s Barbican, as well as the premiere of Simon Holt’s opera Who put Bella in the Wych elm for the Aldeburgh Festival and Almeida Opera.
In 2002 he also made first visits to the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Hanover Band and Danish Radio Sinfonietta. The 2002/03 season included returns to the Philharmonia (with soloist Maria Joao Pires) and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and Northern Sinfonia. He also collaborated with Peter Sellars and soloist Helene Grimaud for the premiere of Arvo Pärt’s ‘Lament Tate’ with the London Sinfonietta at Tate Modern.
The success of his London Philharmonic debut led to his opening their 2003/4 ‘Friday Series’ concerts in London followed by their New Year tour to China. He also returned to the Northern Sinfonia and Scottish Chamber Orchestra to conduct the final concert for the 2004 Edinburgh Festival and made debuts with the CBSO, Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Japanese Virtuoso Symphony Orchestra with whom he recorded Mahler’s 1st Symphony and Debussy’s ‘La Mer’ for Sony.
In 2004/5 he made a notable debut with Orchestre de Paris at the opening of the Strasbourg ‘Musica’ Festival. He also returned to the LPO, Philharmonia, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestras and made his first visits to the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras and to the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart Festival, for two programmes with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
The 2005/6 season included debuts with the Flemish Radio Symphony, Orquesta Nacional do Porto, Sudwestrundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Stuttgart, Belgium National Orchestra and commercial recordings with both the Philharmonia and BBC Symphony Orchestra for Decca. He made his second visit to the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, where he was highly praised for his interpretation of Brahms’ First Symphony, as well as returns to London Philharmonic for Mahler’s 4th Symphony and the Philharmonia. 2006/7 included his debuts with the Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg, Hamburger Symphoniker and Salzburg Camerata, as well as recording and concerts with the Philharmonia and return visit to the Sydney Symphony.
Most recently, he has made his debuts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra of the Komische Oper, Berlin, West Australian Symphony, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra and Musikkollegium Winterthur and returned to the Philharmonia with Mahler’s 4th Symphony, Northern Sinfonia, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester, Berlin. Future plans include debuts with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, as well his return to the Sydney Symphony and further recordings with the Philharmonia.
His first production for Opera Australia was Jenufa in 1998, followed by Madame Butterfly in 1999 and he has since developed strong links with the company. In 2002 he returned to the
Aix-en-Provence Festival for The Cunning Little Vixen, which he toured extensively in Europe during 2002/3.
Past opera/ballet projects have also included The Cunning Little Vixen at the Royal Academy of Music (2002/2003) and Opera Australia (2004); his Royal Opera House, Covent Garden debut (The Rape of Lucretia, 2004); Royal Swedish Opera (The Bartered Bride, 2004) and a double bill of Bartok’s ballets The Miraculous Mandarin and The Wooden Prince for the Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg (2004).
2004/2005 saw him make his debut for Glyndebourne Touring Opera (Die Zauberflöte), then his main Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut, conducting the same production with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He also returned to Opera Australia for Cosi fan tutte and made his debut with the State Opera of South Australia conducting La Boheme. In 2005/6 he made his debut with the English National Opera (Rigoletto followed by Makropoulos Case) as well as returning to Opera Australia for Le Nozze di Figaro. 2007/8 has included the Royal Danish Opera (The Tales of Hoffmann) as well as a highly successful new production of From the House of the Dead for the Canadian Opera Company. Future plans include returns to Opera Australia and the State Opera of South Australia.
Management:
Robert Slotover
e: robert@alliedartists.co.uk
t: 020 7589 6243
f: 020 7581 5269
Representation:
General Management Worldwide excluding Australasia
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